He names the crew and describes their roles, including the ground crews, details the activities before an operation, and lists his operations he was involved in.

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WH Brooker]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Georgie Donaldson]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Orange]]> Victoria--Geelong]]> New South Wales--Harden]]> Victoria]]> New South Wales--Lismore]]> South Australia--Adelaide]]> Great Britain]]> England--Newcastle upon Tyne]]> England--High Wycombe]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> France--Brest]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Victoria]]> France]]> New South Wales]]> South Australia]]> Germany]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> 1944]]>
Photograph of three men sitting in shorts and vests on a stony beach. Captioned '[undecipherable]', 'September 1944', 'Millom'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cumbria]]> Northern Ireland--Antrim (County)]]> Great Britain]]> 1944]]> The code names for the routes are Magnum, Recipe, Rhombus, Bismuth, Mercer, Allah, Sharon, Epicure and Nocturnal.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Map]]> Royal Air Force]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Cosgrove, Teddy. Album]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leeds]]> England--Devon]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Vegesack]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Dessau (Dessau)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France]]> Germany]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Rhineland]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Bexhill]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-110002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Army Bureau of Current Affairs]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany]]> 1944-01-22]]>
Part 2, "No Problem Sport".Covers Alan Gamble's short flying history over France in 1945 before being shot down, and his experiences as a POW in southern Germany and subsequent liberation. The manuscript of Part 2 appears to be complete except for one or more pages missing about two thirds of the way through. This is at the beginning or the end of a fragment bound by metal clips, and could easily have become detached as the outside pages of some fragments' in Part 3 were also lost. It is therefore possible that only one page is missing.

Part 3. "Nil Desperandum".Covers Alan Gamble's post war experiences up to about 1963. This has not been read.

The manuscript of Part 3 is missing pages 24-86, 120 and 170, the latter two being the outside pages of bound fragments. (Page numbering here has assisted in reconstruction).

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A T Gamble]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Peter Bradbury]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Great Britain]]> England--Bedfordshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Skegness]]> England--Suffolk]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Blackpool]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Wales--Porthmadog]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Barrow-in-Furness]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--North Friesland Region]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Italy]]> Italy--Turin]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Berlin]]> France]]> France--Modane]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Jordan]]> Jordan--Amman]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-31]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-03]]> 1945-02-07]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Poland]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> MEdwardsF1805103-180314-080002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Canada]]> 1942-10-19]]> Bottom, photograph of an airwoman looking at meteorological equipment, other equipment in background. Captioned 'Wendy Lord', '1946', 'Chivenor'.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Devon]]> 1946]]>